Notes on the “African Red Slip Ware” ceramics in Scythia Minor
Notes on the “African Red Slip Ware” ceramics in Scythia Minor

Summary/Abstract: In the following, we shall focus on the tableware ceramic produced in the workshops located within the contemporary Tunisia and which was traded up to Danube. This article aims to show the results of archaeological research undertaken in the last decades in the Roman sites from Dobrogea, Romania. In our work to make the inventory of the forms of the “African Red Slip Ware” tableware, discovered in Scythia Minor, we identified 20 forms, some of which, especially those from the 5th and the 6th century, were found in many variants. The earliest one is the Hayes form 27 from the second half of the 2nd century, and the latest one is the Hayes form 105, dated in the first half of the 7th century. Following the discoveries of tableware imported from the North Africa to Scythia Minor, but also taking into account other functional types of ceramic, this topic offers a general image of the commercial trade between the two geographical areas under analysis. Therefore, based on the inventory of „African Red Slip Ware” ceramic, we can establish that the commercial changes begun in the second half of the 2nd century and lasted for at least five centuries, until the first part of the 7th century. The commercial activity was more intense in the late Roman period.

• Details
• Contents